4/6/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Jesus of Erskineville

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Jesus recounts a hard day as he waits in line to renew his driver’s license. Short Black Films makes short films with young people from urban Aboriginal communities in and around Sydney. This film written and directed by Alex Romano and features John De Satge as Jesus and Grant Halabe as the labourer. Continue reading

3/30/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers- Robot Love Story (Episode 3)

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A man wakes up in a hospital with no memory and severe convulsions. With the help of a nurse, Autumn, he learns to control the robotic ticks that control his body and plague his heart. However, not everything and everyone is as they seem. Continue reading

3/9/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: The Dig: You and I and You

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The Dig: You and I and You is Terence Nance magical realist film for the NYC group. The film subsequently won a prime spot at Sundance and a co-producer in Jay Z, but the self-deprecating Nance refuses to get wrapped up in hype or categorization. After The Dig contributed to the soundtrack of Oversimplification, the director repaid the favor with an impulsive, balletic film for the band’s 2013 EP You & I. Continue reading

3/2/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Deus Ex| Human Revolution (Short Film)

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The short film’s clean look and amazingly directed action sequences keep viewers very well engaged, and there’s never a dull moment. It’s a very brisk-moving 12 minute video that takes a snippet of some of the most iconic imagery from Eidos’ latest home console title and translates it into something equally iconic as far as live-action visuals go.  Continue reading

2/23/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Cab Calloway’s Hi De Ho (1934)

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Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is a 1934 musical short film. The film stars Cab Calloway, Fredi Washington, Ethel Moses  and the Cab Calloway Orchestra. This jazz musical short written by Milton Hockey and Fred Rath has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.  Continue reading

(Repost) 11/16/20 O&A HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Cotton Comes To Harlem- Iris, Officer Jerema and the Paper Bag

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Cotton Comes to Harlem was the beginning of short period in American film that featured black actors in leading roles and the themes dealt with issues from the African-American microcosm. With a screenplay by Arnold Perl and Ossie Davis, and directed by Davis this action drama represents the black prospective. Much of the film’s humor is urban black comedy, which was groundbreaking in 1970.

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2/9/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Caldera

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Caldera is a beautiful Award-Winning CGI animated short film by talented Animation filmmaker and composer, Evan Viera. Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, CALDERA glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death. It has received the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction, Award of Innovation – Seattle International Film Festival, Best Animated Film – Rome Independent Film Festival and Rockport Film Festival and Best Short – View Social Awards. Continue reading

2/2/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Devils, Angels & Dating

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Devils, Angels & Dating is an award winning animated short film directed by Michael Cawood. The Devil wants Cupid’s job, but a battle for Death’s affections has cosmic ramifications below the Heavens. Winner of Burbank Film Festival (Best Short Film), Indiefest (Best Animation) and the winner of the Orson Welles Award at the California Film Awards.   Continue reading